A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles Aheto-Tsegah, has stated that the recurring confusion surrounding the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) will persist unless the long-standing issue of protocol is decisively addressed.
Speaking on Channel One TV on Saturday, September 27, 2025, Mr Aheto-Tsegah described protocol — the pressure on headmasters from parents to admit students outside the official placement system — as the “small elephant in the room” that continues to undermine the process.
“The protocol has actually been expanding, and that is what we have to deal with. If we want to be very fair and equitable, we need to kill that small elephant in the room called protocol,” he said.
He further argued that the CSSPS was fundamentally flawed from the outset, describing it as “dead on arrival.”
“We didn’t even know how to manage protocol in the system, even though we knew it was an ever-present issue. So we simply lived with it from the beginning without putting in proper measures to deal with it,” he noted.
Source: Adomonline
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